Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
DAKOTA NEWS.

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float.
Hay is scarce in the vicinity Of Ham
cock.
Col. Steele, of Steele, has patented q
car heater.
Farmers are busy blowing in the False
Bottom valley.
-Ex- Congressman j. j. Kieffer settles
permanently at Pierre.
The real estate boom is visiting Flan-
drau with profitable results.
Aberdeen and Columbia have locked
horns in a county seat contest.
Stone cutters in the quarries at Sioux
Falls earn from 81 to SIS per day.
Lake county farmers IRE going into the
business of raising blooded stock.
The Unitarian church society Of Sioux
Falls are raising n building fund.
Territorial Auditor Ward expects to
leave Sioux Falls for Bismarck in o few
days.
An eastern capitalist also makes n pro-
position for o street cor franchise at Sioux
Falls.
The Fargo Argus wants straight party
nominations in the coming municipal cam
paign.
-Milbank is on the lookout for o fire.
bug who recently attempted to burn that
town.
r.. F. Pettigrew intends to put in sew
era! miles Of street railway at Sioux Falls
at once.
Stock feed is SO scarce in LlMoure
county as to cause much concern to the
farmers.
Grant county reports q large influx Of
settlers from Minnesota, illinois and
Sweden.
Extensive buildings will be built at
Huron ty the Consolidated Tank Lin,
company.
ID. S. Glidden IS looked upon as the
coming warden of the Sioux Falls PEN
itentiary.
The first writ of assistance ever issued
by any court in the territory was issued
last Monday in Grand Forks.
Stock, both cattle and horses, along
the eastern side of the Hills, seem 70 have
stood the winter in good shape.
Gen. Harrison Allen is trimming his
candidacy on the G. A. R. encampment to
meet at jamestown for the post Of depart
ment commander.
Tho ground ut Sundance has never
been frozen the past winter, being thickly
covered with snow. Consequently green
grass is abundant.
Rev. John Eastman, of Flandrau, visi-
ted the Lower Brule agency last week and
in mi day baptised eighteen Indians and
married three couples. ,
The Watertown Telephone Company
with H. r. Pease, President, and $50, COO
capital, will put in o seventy-fve exchange
circuit within a month. Z
The Unitarian society, Of Sioux Falls,
are passing around a subscription paper
with the object in view Of erecting q church
edifce with the proceeds.
Rev. Holp will elevate the standard Of
season lectures at the Baptist college at
Sioux Falls by introducing himself on
the topic of cred hair"
Prairie chickens are so plentiful around
Sioux Falls that they crowd each other into
the city limits and occasional focks perch
on the residences on the hill streets.
There are already about four times as
many candidates as Offices to fill in the
municipal election at Sioux Falls. Tho
places do not pay q nickle in salary while
the positions give plenty of work and critic
ism.
Judge Mcconnell, of Fargo, issued an
order detaching Cavalier county from Penn
bina. and making it q separate judicial sub
division. A term of court was ordered for
Langdon, in the new district, September
next.
Tho opera House block at Fargo was
sold for $28, 600, and again resold for $685.
600. It is rumored the last purchasers
were Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago,
and that they intend establishing q branch
house there.
Some Clark county hunters chased
what they supposed a herd of elk ever the
hills and through the valleys, and now the
owners of the innocent sheep are dancing
behind warrants and demanding damages
for breaking the limbs of some blooded
ewes.
Mrs. John p. Crennan, wife of a
prominent business man of Yankton, died
at Toledo, Ohio, of scarlet fever. She
left Yankton a few days before with her
baby to avoid the disease raging at that
place, but the germs we're with her which
causel her death. Deceased was a sister
of Ralph Wheelock, of the Mitchell Re-
publican, and a sister-in-law of ex-Secre-
tary Teller.
August Kegel, of Grand Forks county,
went to Chicago to buy horses for his farm.
He was intox Gated, and hired Jordan A.
Bells cab and started of for a good time.
After visiting the Buckingham and some
Third and Fourth Avenue resorts, he fell
in with Matte St. Claire and Lizzie Oak
ley, and sool after missed SLIGO in cash.
The next day Bell was arrested, and he AMI
the two women were indicted. The case
came to trial before Judge JamisOn. and